[pydotorg-www] Removing /moin/ suffix from wiki.python.org (Was: Internal Server Error while reverting spam)

[Radomir Dopieralski]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:01, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <sheep at sheep.art.pl>wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Dec 2, 2011 11:07 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 2, 2011 10:12 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul Boddie wrote:
>>>>>>> On Friday 02 December 2011 03:00:29 skip at pobox.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>     anatoly> And it could be a little easier to type
>>>>>>>> wiki.python.org/MelbournePUG if mysterious somebody
>>>>>>>>     anatoly> could adjust web-server configuration accordingly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There's another layer in the URL which distinguishes the Python and
>>>>>>>> Jython wikis.  At least there used to be.  Now I see the selector
>>> page
>>>>>>>> briefly, then it redirects me to the last page I was viewing on the
>>>>>>>> Python wiki.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, I think there was a discussion about this: in principle, it
>>> makes
>>>>>>> sense to eliminate the "/moin" part, and I guess that this was
>>> changed.
>>>>>>> I must admit that I haven't been following this list for some time,
>>> so I'm
>>>>>>> sorry if I'm not up-to-date with what people have been doing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The /moin part is still there and AFAIK is needed, since there are
>>>>>> several instances of moin running on the wiki.python.org domain:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  * Python wiki
>>>>>>  * Jython  wiki
>>>>>>  * PSF wiki
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and perhaps more.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's not a problem, those urls can be made to work just fine as
>>>>> exceptions. I can write apropriate rules if there is a decission to
>>> make
>>>>> the change.
>>>>
>>>> Could you elaborate a bit ? What are those "exceptions" ?
>>>
>>> It's not a technical term, I meant it literally. Basically you can
>>> configure the web server so that the urls of those other wikis lead to the
>>> respective applications, while all other urls lead to the default python
>>> wiki. I think it doesn't even require rewrite rules, as scriptalias
>>> directives are evaluated in order of occurence. We would of course still
>>> have a redirect from the old /moin url.
>>>
>>
>> If there are no objections, I would say - Radomir, go for it. =)
>> To summarize what do we want to do and how it will behave after the
>> migration:
>>
>>  * wiki.python.org/PageName - is a new shorter way of accessing Python
>> knowledge base
>>  * wiki.jython.org/PageName - is a new shorter way to access Jython pages
>>  * wiki.python.org/moin/(.*)$ - will be a permanent redirect to
>> wiki.python.org/\1 to save external links from breaking
>>  * wiki.python.org/jython/(.*)$ - the same to  wiki.jython.org/\1
>
> I don't think this will technically work with MoinMoin, since it
> needs the URL prefix to distinguish between the wiki instances
> in a farm installation.
>
> We could have a redirect from anything not a wiki instance
> prefix to wiki.python.org/moin/\1, but the wiki pages themselves
> would still need to use the /moin/ prefix.

I'm sorry, but I must protest here. As one of the core developers of
MoinMoin I have never heard about such a limitation -- perhaps in was
there in some older versions of MoinMoin, from before I joined. In
fact, the wikis at *.moinmo.in itself are running as a farm, as far as
I know, and they are all top-level wikis. The regular expressions in
farmconfig can match the domain names just fine. Even if there was
such a limitation, it would be very easy to work around with Apache's
rewrite rules. There are no technical problems preventing us from
using the setup that Anatoly described, and I will be glad to
configure the wikis once an agreement is reached.

> BTW: What's so bad about the prefix advertising the use of
> MoinMoin for the Python.org wiki ?

Personally I don't mind it. I'm just trying to say that there are no
technical requirements for it.
-- 
Radomir Dopieralski, http://sheep.art.pl